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Turkey Book Talk

by William Armstrong

Conversations with journalists, academics and writers on Turkey and its region. New episode every two weeks.

100 episodes
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1
Mustafa Aksakal on World War I and the end of the Ottoman Empire
38:44 Mar 17, 2026
2
Michelle Lynn Kahn on Turkish migration to Germany
30:01 Mar 3, 2026
3
Murat Yıldız on the Ottoman world of sports, modernisation and minorities
42:19 Feb 17, 2026
4
Berin Gür on the conquest of Istanbul in the Islamist-nationalist imagination
30:15 Feb 3, 2026
5
Adnan Khan on the human toll of Turkey's importing of Europe's waste
37:41 Jan 20, 2026
6
Burcu Karahan on sexual freedom and women in late Ottoman fiction
32:19 Jan 6, 2026
7
Mehmet Gurses on the transformation of Turkey's Kurdish issue
35:46 Dec 22, 2025
8
Reuben Silverman on the rise and fall of Turkey's Democrat Party
41:44 Dec 9, 2025
9
Seçil Daǧtaș on religious difference in Turkey's Hatay
38:12 Nov 25, 2025
10
Senem Aydin-Duzgit on foreign policy weaponisation in Turkish domestic politics
37:55 Nov 11, 2025
11
Nora Fisher Onar on Turkish political history beyond binaries
31:26 Oct 28, 2025
12
Sean Mathews on Greece's regional comeback amid rivalry with Turkey
39:22 Oct 14, 2025
13
Perin Gurel on the history of comparing Turkey and Iran in the West
36:43 Sep 30, 2025
14
Gokhan Bacik on Turkey's citizenship-selling programme
31:36 Sep 16, 2025
15
Amy Marie Spangler on Leyla Erbil's dark vision of Istanbul's history
27:37 Sep 2, 2025
16
Özgür Özkan on the 'dangerous illusion' of Turkey's PKK peace bid
34:24 Aug 19, 2025
17
Christopher Dole on psychiatry and disaster in Turkey
39:12 Aug 5, 2025
18
Mustafa Kutlay on Turkey's middle power dilemmas
34:25 Jul 22, 2025
19
Bilge Yabancı on Turkey's civil society under siege
38:42 Jul 8, 2025
20
Erik-Jan Zürcher on imperial nostalgia in Turkey and Britain
38:17 Jun 24, 2025
21
Talin Suciyan on Armenians in Turkey after World War Two
29:23 Jun 10, 2025
22
David Tonge on the enduring hold of Islamic orders in Turkey
34:53 May 27, 2025
23
Richard Calis on Martin Crusius and the discovery of Ottoman Greece
34:57 May 13, 2025
24
Fiona Mullen on the Cyprus question amid growing geopolitical uncertainty
31:04 Apr 29, 2025
25
Bilge Yesil on Turkey's narrowing media landscape
30:18 Apr 15, 2025
26
Berk Esen on whether Turkey has shifted from authoritarianism to autocracy
32:05 Apr 1, 2025
27
Cuma Çiçek on PKK disarmament and the future of Turkey's Kurdish issue
34:09 Mar 18, 2025
28
Selim Koru on Turkey's role in the emerging anti-liberal world order
46:46 Mar 4, 2025
29
Claudia Liebelt on cosmetic surgery and perceptions of beauty in Turkey
33:48 Feb 18, 2025
30
Brett Wilson on Yakup Kadri's controversial late Ottoman novel 'Nur Baba'
31:38 Feb 4, 2025
31
Omar Kadkoy on the future of Syrian migrants in Turkey
32:01 Jan 21, 2025
32
Zozan Pehlivan on climatic shifts behind late Ottoman conflicts
28:50 Jan 7, 2025
33
Samuel Hirst on a century of Ankara-Moscow cooperation
42:08 Dec 17, 2024
34
Ralph Hubbell on the work of Turkish literary giant Oğuz Atay
37:45 Dec 12, 2024
35
Jennifer Hattam on Istanbul's shifting cultural landscape
34:24 Nov 19, 2024
36
Salim Çevik on Turkey's Middle East reset
37:09 Nov 5, 2024
37
Orçun Selçuk on populist polarisation in Turkey and Latin America
40:10 Oct 22, 2024
38
Ezgi Başaran on the new spirit of Islamism
34:52 Oct 8, 2024
39
Samim Akgönül on 100 years of Turkish-Greek relations
37:35 Sep 24, 2024
40
Çağdaş Üngör on Turkey's geopolitical dilemmas in the Asia-Pacific century
38:39 Sep 10, 2024
41
Karabekir Akkoyunlu on religion and democracy in Turkey and Iran
41:35 Aug 27, 2024
42
Eugene Rogan on communal violence and the end of the old Ottoman world
46:26 Aug 13, 2024
43
Umit Kurt on Gaziantep's forgotten Armenian past
30:01 Jul 30, 2024
44
Ozge Samanci on visualising Istanbul's sociopolitical currents
23:43 Jul 16, 2024
45
Sami Kent on stories from Turkey’s first hundred years
32:40 Jul 2, 2024
46
Bradley Secker on the pleasures and perils of photojournalism in Istanbul
38:53 Jun 17, 2024
47
Bilge Yesil on Turkey’s global media operations
46:17 Jun 3, 2024
48
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on Muslim refugees in the Ottoman Empire
40:44 May 20, 2024
49
Emre Toros on Turkey between democracy and authoritarianism
28:32 May 6, 2024
50
Christopher Phillips on Turkey’s place in Middle East turbulence
49:43 Apr 22, 2024
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